TulsaTechFest 2009


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 Featured Speakers
Joe Fletcher, User Experience Lead, MicrosoftJohn Weston, DPE IT PRO Evangelist, MicrosoftChris Koenig, Developer Evangelist, Microsoft
Jason Cornellier, Senior Consultant, MicrosoftJennifer Marsman, Developer Evangelist, MicrosoftKevin Walsh, Principal Consultant, Microsoft
Michael Benkovich, Developer Evangelist, MicrosoftSteve Chilcoat, Senior Test Lead, MicrosoftDavid Walker, Application Developer Consultant (ADC), Microsoft
Chris Patterson, Software Architect, RelayHealthEric Shupps, Microsoft SharePoint MVP, Founder / President, Binary WaveJay Smith, PMO Architect and Evangelist, Microsoft MVP, Tyson Foods, Inc.
Mary Leigh Mackie, AvePointRob Vettor, Application Architect and Team Lead, Microsoft C# MVP, Jack Henry and AssociatesRobert Boedigheimer, Microsoft MVP - Visual Developer ASP/ASP.NET, The Schwan Food Company
Shawn Weisfeld, Microsoft MVP - C#Todd Anglin, Chief Evangelist, Microsoft MVP, TelerikBrett Schuchert, Senior Trainer, Mentor and Consultant, Object Mentor
Bob Dudley, Manager of Applications Developer and Support, Explorer Pipeline CompanyFadi Shami, Architect, EDL ConsultingJeff Bramwell, Lead Developer, Farm Credit Services of America
JP DuboisJP Jones, Creative Director, Designer, Author, Teacher, Owner of Paige1Publishing, Co-Owner of Collipsis Web Solutions, LLC.Kristin Ferrier, President, OKC SQL Developers Group
Shawn Mehaffie, Sr. Application Developer, Member of DotNetNuke Core Team, UMB BankTommy Falgout, Sr. Application Developer, Yahoo!Dennis Palmer
Boyd Evert, IT Director, A/P RecoveryBrad Vernon, Owner - Shark Media, Web Developer, Bixby Telephone CompanyJo Lea Anderson, Project/Program Manager, Scrum Master, Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group
Luke Crouch, Software Engineer, SourceForge.netMark Rackley, Senior Programmer Analyst, UNFINeil Little, Senior Application Developer, New Media Gateway
Todd Stone, Senior Software Developer, HBS SystemsChuck Tryon, Tryon and AssociatesCorey Roth, Enterprise Consultant, Stonebridge
Kari Mirabal, Executive Career Advisor, Oklahoma Professional Search (OPS)Regan Unruh, Solution Manager, Anyware Mobile SolutionsSaif Khan, Freelance Designer / Consultant, Founder of OKGamers.com

 Sessions

Nov 6th - Cloud

Developing Your First Azure Service

Speaker(s): Jennifer Marsman

In this session we take a tour of the capabilities of the Microsoft cloud platform by building and running a simple service using the platform SDK. The sample service highlights some of the features of the platform including service management, storage, and an integrated developer experience. This is a demo-heavy session.

Nov 6th - 9:00 AM
Nov 6th

Nov 6th - Cloud

Developer's Overview of SQL Azure

Speaker(s): Chris Koenig

TBA

Nov 6th - 10:30 AM
Nov 6th

Nov 6th - Cloud

Salesforce.com / Force.com Cloud Platform

Speaker(s): Fadi Shami

The Force.com cloud platform makes building applications faster and easier than ever.  It includes a database, security, workflow, user interface, and other tools that step you through the process of building powerful business applications, Web sites, and mobile applications. This session is demo heavy on which we will explore different aspects of the Force.com platform.

Nov 6th - 1:00 PM
Nov 6th

Nov 6th - Cloud

Azure storage for the relational database minded developer

Speaker(s): Dennis Palmer

Now that Microsoft has released SQL Azure, which supports nearly all of SQL Server’s functionality in the cloud, why should developers consider using Azure table storage?
 
Table storage (along with blobs and queues) provide the truly cloud level scalability that you’re looking for when you decide to develop an app for Windows Azure.  We’ll start by comparing the pros and cons of choosing Azure Table Storage over SQL Azure.   Then move quickly into how to design your data model in a manner that works well with the highly scalable table storage.  With SQL Server and other relational databases, normalization was king.  However, table storage is not relational and therefore requires a different way of thinking about how to store data.
 
The benefits are huge, but wrapping your mind around the flat file nature of Azure table storage when normalized relational data models are all you've been thinking about for the last 10+ years can be tough.

Nov 6th - 2:30 PM
Nov 6th

Nov 6th - Cloud

Business Value from the Cloud

Speaker(s): David Walker

Join this open discussion of what are the real business justifications and impacts of utilizing the Cloud.

Nov 6th - 4:00 PM
Nov 6th
  		 

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